রহস্যের জট ছাড়াবার জন্যে ফেলুদাকে প্রায়ই পাড়ি জমাতে হয়েছে কলকাতা ছেড়ে দূরের কোনও জায়গায়। এইসব স্থানে ঘটেছিল যেসব সাত-সতেরো রহস্য-রোমাঞ্চ, অ্যাডভেঞ্চার সেগুলিকেই দুই মলাটের মধ্যে এনে প্রকাশিত ‘ফেলুদার সপ্তকাণ্ড’।
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film, Bicycle Thieves.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents.
Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. This film, Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Award in 1992. The Government of India honoured him with the Bharat Ratna in 1992.
Early Life and Background: Ray's grandfather, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was a writer, illustrator, philosopher, publisher, amateur astronomer and a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, a religious and social movement in nineteenth century Bengal. Sukumar Ray, Upendrakishore's son and father of Satyajit, was a pioneering Bengali author and poet of nonsense rhyme and children's literature, an illustrator and a critic. Ray was born to Sukumar and Suprabha Ray in Calcutta.
Ray completed his B.A. (Hons.) in Economics at Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, though his interest was always in Fine Arts. In 1940, he went to study in Santiniketan where Ray came to appreciate Oriental Art. In 1949, Ray married Bijoya Das and the couple had a son, Sandip ray, who is now a famous film director.
Literary Works: Ray created two of the most famous fictional characters ever in Bengali children's literature—Feluda, a sleuth in Holmesian tradition, and Professor Shonku, a genius scientist. Ray also wrote many short stories mostly centered on Macabre, Thriller and Paranormal which were published as collections of 12 stories. Ray wrote an autobiography about his childhood years, Jakhan Choto Chilam (1982). He also wrote essays on film, published as the collections: Our Films, Their Films (1976), Bishoy Chalachchitra (1976), and Ekei Bole Shooting (1979).
Awards, Honors and Recognitions: Ray received many awards, including 32 National Film Awards by the Government of India. At the Moscow Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded for the contribution to cinema. At the Berlin Film Festival, he was one of only three to win the Silver Bear for Best Director more than once and holds the record for the most Golden Bear nominations, with seven. At the Venice Film Festival, he won a Golden Lion for Aparajito(1956), and awarded the Golden Lion Honorary Award in 1982. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded the Akira Kurosawa Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
জীবনে পাওয়া প্রথম বই উপহার। মামীর দেওয়া বইটা যে কতবার পড়েছি তার হিসাব মনে নেই। সম্ভবত ক্লাস ৪ থাকতে জন্মদিনে পেয়েছিলাম। প্রত্যেকটা গল্প খুবই পছন্দের। তবে যেসব গল্পে লালমোহন বাবু আছে সেগুলো আরও বেশিই প্রিয়। রহস্যের সাথে কমেডি... জমজমাট কম্বিনেশন।
As an adolescent I absolutely adored Feluda and it was an annual ritual to re-read the favorites. Revisiting Feluda as an adult not only took me down the memory lane but also reinforced my appreciation for Ray. What an absolute legend, to have consistently done such stellar work! The man will never cease to amaze me it seems.
Feluda was originally written by Satyajit Ray for the children’s magazine ‘Sandesh’. The popularity of the series was such that Ray went on to include a few adult themes in the later stories when he realized that even adults were enjoying the series. I actually read Feluda before Agatha Christie and as such Feluda was my introduction to detective fiction. The best part of the stories is the evergreen manner of Ray’s narrative. I remember reading ‘Baadhshahi Angti’ which was written in 1960s and when I visited Lucknow in 1990s, I could still recognize the places described in the book. The other thing that I loved about the series was that in every story we learned something new – be it about geometry or about telepathy. Absolutely and irrevocably in love with Feluda and his adventures – forever a fan.
এটা একটা মাস্টারপিস, ছোট থেকে বড় সবাই ফেলুর গল্প পরেই মুগ্ধ হয়েছে । ফেলুদা একটা আইকন, বাংলায় জন্মে কেও ফেলু মিত্তির এর নাম শোনেনি এমন লোক পাওয়া দুষ্কর, বা রাস্তায় সবুজ অ্যাম্বাসেডর দেখলে কেও লালমোহন গাঙ্গুলির কথা মনে করেন না এরম লোক ও কম।
এই চরিত্রের ক্রিটিক্যাল বিশ্লেষণ করার যোগ্যতা আমার নেই । ফেলুদা একটা আলাদা জগৎ, যেখানে প্রতি দিনই কেও না কেও হারিয়ে যায়, যেতে ভালোবাসে । ফেলুদার মগজাস্ত্রের খেলায় স্তম্ভিত হয়, গল্পের মধ্যে উত্তেজনা খুঁজে পাই, নিজেকে তোপসে মনে করে ফেলুদার সাথেই যেনো কেস সলভ করতে লেগে পরে ।
Prodosh C. Mitter একটা সাধারণ চরিত্র নয় । বইয়ের পাতার মধ্যে বেছে থাকা আলাদা একটা দুনিয়া সে। এবং সে দুনিয়া বেছে থাকবে অমর্ত্য সময় ধরে । যতদিন বাঙালি তার কালচার কে ভালোবাসবে, বাঙালি সাস্কৃতি কে ভালোবাসবে, ফেলুদা বেছে থাকবে । ফেলুদা অমর ।
Fall in love with the timeless stories of Feluda by the maestro Satyajit Ray. Contains 7 stories, each taking place in a different city of India, full of detective tales that will make your head spin. Read the English translated ones (Penguin published it last time I checked) in case you can't read Bengali.
বহু বছর হয়ে গিয়েছে যখন এই বইটি পড়া শেষ করেছিলাম, তা সত্বেও আজও ফেলুদা আমার সব চেয়ে প্রিয় কাল্পনিক চরিত্রগুলির মধ্যে অন্যতম। ভারতের বিভিন্ন শহরগুলোকে কেন্দ্র করে যেভাবে লেখক তার ত্রিমূর্তির দুঃসাহসিক ও রোমাঞ্চকর অভিজ্ঞতাগুলিকে সাজিয়ে তুলেছেন, তা সত্যিই প্রসংশাযোগ্য। বইটি যেন এককথায় কাল্পনিক ভারতভ্রমন।
My childhood, my growing up and my ending up as a bookworm, Feluda is one of the reasons for what and how I am today...
I don't know how many times I have read this book, and it never failed to amaze the little boy back then, and still does the magic to the grown-up me at the present...
One of the "treasures" that I had the luck to "possess" growing up, besides Sunil Gangopadhyay's Kakababu series- both of them shaped up my childhood and gave me hours of adventure and mind wandering to faraway possibilities, helping me whenever I needed a break from almost anything...
Even when I was riding on a train and got bored after a while, instead of sleeping, I opened up ফেলুদার সপ্তকান্ড, and the journey got magical... I wouldn't be bored anymore...
I remember I got all these books after each of my semester finals, and the undefinable happiness that crept up from my heart to all over my body after seeing them- the smell of the new books were likely a kind of manifestation of that happiness that comes with every book...
I got this book with কাকাবাবু সমগ্র ৫(my first introduction to both Kakababu and Feluda), hidden behind the bulky television of ours... it was a dark and gloomy afternoon, and after discovering my post-exam gifts, that day curved itself on my mind, and I took off with both of them to their adventures for the first time...
Years will pass, shadows will come and go, but books like this and their shadows continue to stay, wrapped around, with those sweet and worry-less days of the past, of our childhood...